LSAT 21, Logical Reasoning II, Q1, LSATHacks

LR Question 1 Explanation, by LSATHacks

QUESTION TEXT: Everyone sitting in the waiting room of the school’s…

QUESTION TYPE: Must be True

FACTS:

1. A few people are in the waiting room.
2. Everyone in the waiting room signed up for a beginner’s clinic.
3. Therefore they aren’t experts.

ANALYSIS: This is pretty simple. John, Mary and Theresa aren’t expert tennis players.

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1. This goes too far. They might have played tennis. They just aren’t experts.
2. They might have registered for other clinics as well. The stimulus didn’t say anything about this.
3. The stimulus says everyone in the waiting room registered. But it didn’t say that only the people in the waiting room registered.
4. The stimulus didn’t say there were no other people in the waiting room.
5. CORRECT. This has to be true, since John and Theresa registered for a beginner’s clinic.

Recap: The question begins with “Everyone sitting in the waiting room of the school’s”. It is a Must be True question. Learn how to master LSAT MBT questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.

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